Show bbs OBSERVED THE USUAL OMENS french astronomer Attro nomer claims the th stars star as a always alway foretold coming of war in europe in a recent number ot of camille Flam marton marlon publishes an ingenious memoir illustrated with quaint wood cuta from a sixteenth century work on prodigies in which lie ha shows hows that all the celestial and terrestrial omens of war in which our forefathers so go firmly believed duly ushered in the great conflict now raging in europe those these include 1 the total solar eolar eclipse of august 21 1914 visible in europe and asia 2 dela vans naked eyo comet known as the war comet discovered at the close cloe ot of 1913 and destined to remain visible for the next five years from which the superstitious might augur years of war 3 the transit of 31 mr r cury on november 7 1914 4 the fall 1 ot of a 35 pound meteorite in england last october 5 the great italian italien earthquake of january 13 1916 6 a star of which M X plain flam marlon marion promises to furnish particulars later only remarking for the present that it was wa an optical effect much exaggerated by the popular imagination and lastly all sorts of remarkable weather including a wintry day in june of last year with a inin minimum linum temperature of 41 degrees in parts paris it would be too bad adds the scientific american to refute this accumulated evidence of the futility of modern science by seeking tor for previous periods of a year or so in which similar omens were manifested manite aled and no war followed |